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Monday, January 14, 2013

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Malcolm
West used more than 5,000 Jelly Belly jelly beans in 20 different
flavours for this portrait, including liquorice and chocolate pudding
for the Duchess’s hair, with candy floss and pink grapefruit for her
English rose complexion.

The
Surrey-based artist painted a background sketch on a 4ft-high canvas
and then glued each bean into place. ‘It’s a fiddly, messy process,’ he
says. ‘But I’m very pleased with the results.’

TOAST AND MARMITE

‘I
used 35 slices of white sliced bread from Asda to create the image,
plus a pot of Marmite Gold: the gold glitter seemed appropriate for a
royal,’ says 23-year-old Nathan Wyburn.

The
fine art graduate was on 2011’s Britain’s Got Talent and boasts
commissions from Hovis, Costa and Oral B — though he was very excited to
turn his focus on the Duchess. ‘Kate was a great subject, a true
British icon,’ he says.

So
what will become of Marmite Kate? Nathan, from Cardiff, ‘recycles’ all
his work by donating it to a local farmer — apparently, his horses are
Marmite mad.

STREET ART

Street
artist Joe Hill has drawn the Duchess in 3D before — a stunning
bird’s-eye view of Kate and William leaving Westminster Abbey after
their wedding in 2011.

The
new picture — based on a photo taken at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur
(right) — works by stretching the image out towards a vanishing point,
so it tricks the eye into thinking it is 3D when seen from the right
angle.

GRAFFITI STYLE

The
Duchess has never been the edgiest of icons — nude LK Bennett heels
aren’t terribly hip-hop — so she’s perhaps an unlikely subject for a
graffiti homage.

This
metre-square portrait on canvas took Benjamin, a graffiti artist for 13
years, six hours and seven tins of spray paint to finish.‘I wanted to portray Kate so that she looks pretty in a medium she’s never been seen in before,’ he says.

Benjamin is part of Graffiti Life, an East London company that has produced advertising campaigns for BMW, Nike and Microsoft.

BABY BUMP

What more fitting way to celebrate the royal pregnancy than Kate’s face painted onto a baby bump?

Nicola
Shilson — face-painter in the Eden Project greenhouses in Cornwall —
enlisted seven months pregnant Katie Lutey, 26, to lie still for three
hours. Nicola then completed the work with body paints.

The portrait was based on a photo of Kate at Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall’s wedding (below).

‘I
was nervous before I started,’ admits Nicola. ‘But it really came
together. I’d love to know what Kate thinks if she sees it.’

Sadly, all that hard work went down the plughole after one shower.

LEGO

A
whopping 13,842 bricks in 20 colours went into this metre-high picture
by Ed Diment and Duncan Titmarsh of Bright Bricks. The pair have also
made a half-scale working jet engine for Rolls-Royce and a 15ft portrait
of the Queen for Hamleys’ window.

‘We
ran Kate’s photo through our software and produced a big picture, which
was broken into tiny squares onto which we could place the Lego,’ Ed
says. ‘It was a pleasure to have her as a subject.’

iPAD CARTOON

Even Duchesses are fair game for a caricature, though Jon-Paul McCarthy admits that her flawless face gave him problems.

‘It
makes harder to exaggerate her features while staying respectful,’ he
says. ‘But she’s got a nice big smile, that was the focal point. She’s
also got a large chin.’

Jon-Paul,
a trained animator who has a shop on Brighton Pier, sketched Kate from a
photo, then used an iPad-style tablet to paint and draw her onto the
screen.